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British police secretly using U.K. passport database to conduct facial recognition searches

January 10, 2024 -

This is according to an investigation by British media outlet the Telegraph and British investigative journalism firm Liberty Investigates. They found that British police forces have conducted hundreds of illegal facial recognition searches using the passport database since at least 2019 – and searches have ramped up in recent months. (Related: Millions of U.K. students are using BIOMETRICS for school-related activities without parental consent.)

The Telegraph and Liberty ...

TSA’s use of FACIAL RECOGNITION tech in US airports rouses privacy concerns

May 30, 2023 -

"What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say you are," Jason Lim, TSA identity management capabilities manager, told reporters during a demonstration of the technology at Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport.

A presentation of the technology posted by the Associated Press shows a female passenger walking up to a security checkpoint. She inserts an identification card into a slot and looks ...

CHAIN REACTION: 22 DEVASTATING things that will happen if Israel launches full assault against Gaza

October 25, 2023 -

At the same time, NSC spokesman John Kirby -- the same one who still insists the US Navy didn't sabotage the Nordstream pipelines -- admits that "innocent civilians" are going to be killed as the U.S. and Israel wage war against Gaza. "This is war. It is combat. It is bloody. It is ugly, and it's going to be messy. And innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward," he said in a press briefing today.

Clearly, Israel and the United States intend to wage an all-out ...

Target sued for illegally collecting customers’ biometric data through facial scans and fingerprinting

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Target illegally collected and stored customers’ biometric data, including face and fingerprint scans, according to an Illinois woman who filed a class action lawsuit against the Minnesota-based company on behalf of herself and other customers.

Arnetta Dean alleges Target violated Illinois’ BIPA by collecting customers’ data without obtaining written consent or sharing data retention and destruction policies. (Related: Biometric data and surveillance: DNA being eyed as the ...

EERILY SILENT: Israel’s utter DISREGARD for civilian life in Gaza draws muted reaction from the West

October 27, 2023 -

Non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) further said that the principle of nonreciprocity inherent in the laws of war also applies to all conflicts. Violations of these laws by one side do not justify violations by another.

People have observed how in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the United States and European governments have rightly upheld life-protecting principles and denounced flagrant violations by Russian forces including indiscriminate attacks, ...

IDF accused of using AI facial recognition system to target innocent Palestinians in Gaza

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The Red Wolf system, developed by Unit 8200 of the IDF's Intelligence Corps in collaboration with Israeli tech firm Corsight, utilizes advanced AI algorithms to identify "individuals of interest." Initially, the IDF deployed the system to locate Israelis taken as hostages by Hamas during cross-border raids. The IDF then expanded its use to target anyone suspected of having ties to Hamas. (Related: Israel deploying next-generation weapons in Gaza, including AI-powered weapons systems....

AI, palm scanners, facial recognition, augmented reality and more: The dystopian future is NOW

2 months ago -

Just in the past several years, advancements in things like AI (artificial intelligence), cashless payment systems, augmented reality and more have happened so quickly that one could argue that we are in dystopia right now – though there is still much more to come.

Unless some kind of black swan event puts an immediate stop to it, the dystopian future will rapidly become the dystopian present – and in many ways it already is.

Take palm scanning, for instance. Paying ...

Australian government to use facial, fingerprint recognition for key online government services in 2024

December 19, 2023 -

The announcement follows the federal government's statement on having to deal with thousands of scam attempts at myGov accounts each month. myGov is an online app used by Australian residents to access different government services, including viewing tax records and accessing healthcare and social welfare.

Australia has recently become the target of a wave of cyberattacks and scamming activities. According to reports, hackers are selling stolen myGov login details on ...

EU visitors will soon be subject to facial scans and fingerprinting under new initiative

November 03, 2023 -

EES and ETIAS are part of the large-scale IT systems that the EU has been developing for "collecting, processing and sharing information relevant to external border management." (Related: TSA's use of FACIAL RECOGNITION tech in US airports rouses privacy concerns.)

Here are the things travelers need to know about the two separate, but interconnected, travel regulations EU intends to launch.European Entry/Exit System (EES)

EES is an automated IT system that registers ...

Facial recognition tech deployed at Chinese gas stations – people on social credit blacklist can’t refuel

June 23, 2023 -

Videos posted on social media show how customers at one gas station somewhere in China are being forced to approach a kiosk and have their faces scanned in order to access gas for their vehicles. (Related: New York Times praises communist China for censoring citizens, says mass surveillance offers "own kind of freedom.")

Furthermore, people reportedly on the blacklist of the country's social credit system are barred from driving their own cars. If they are hailed by the ...

BAN THE SCAN: Civil rights groups call on the state of New York to outlaw facial recognition

November 03, 2023 -

These groups have declared that facial recognition technology (FRT) is an "immediate threat" to New Yorkers" safety and civil rights.

In a memo of support for two pending state bills 1014-2023 and 1024-2023, "Ban the Scan" advocates pointed out that biometric technology, including facial recognition, can be "biased, error-prone and harmful."

With the advancement of facial recognition technology, here are some of the main privacy and security concerns that can't ...

Facial recognition program to be rolled out at 16 major U.S. airports, increasing biometric surveillance of Americans

May 21, 2023 -

TSA launches controversial biometric surveillance program

The new biometric surveillance program includes newly-installed kiosks, equipped with cameras. When a passenger approaches the kiosk, he/she must insert their government-issued ID (driver’s license, passport) into the designated slot. Then, the passenger must hold their face still and look into a camera while facial recognition technology scans their face to match their biometrics with their ID. After the person’s face is ...

British gov’t to equip cops with facial recognition technology as part of $69M plan to combat retail crime

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According to the announcement of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the program will make use of 55.5 million pounds ($69.24 million) worth of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, including mobile units equipped with facial recognition systems in different public areas over the next four years. These units will capture real-time footage of public spaces, comparing images against a database of suspects wanted for crimes such as shoplifting. In turn, l enforcement will receive notifications ...

Public housing facilities are being equipped with surveillance systems despite little evidence that they make communities safer

June 07, 2023 -

This scenario is occurring all across the United States. According to reports, more and more public housing agencies have been purchasing tools such as facial recognition technology and others with artificial intelligence capabilities.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has helped facilitate the purchase of cameras through federal crime-fighting grants meant to keep residents safe. However, a review of court records and interviews with residents, ...

WATCHED: Russia to expand surveillance system by requiring integration of private video cameras into government surveillance networks

February 07, 2024 -

The initiative, which was the result of a decree from Perm Krai Gov. Dmitry Makhonin, took effect on Jan. 25.

The private video camera mandate is in alignment with President Vladimir Putin’s martial law declaration in Ukraine's occupied territories last October 2022, granting regional governors augmented powers to maintain the "security" of their assigned areas.

Russia's citizen monitoring has significantly heightened following the beginning of the special military ...

CDC forced to release COVID-19 vaccine injury reports showing a range of serious side effects

21 days ago -

The data comes from the CDC’s V-safe text messaging system, which is designed to monitor for potential vaccine side effects. They have long refused to share the data with the public, opting instead to simply publish studies of the reports that aim to reassure people the shots are safe. However, data released in 2022 showed that eight percent of the system’s 10 million users needed hospital care or medical attention following their vaccine, and many more had to miss work, school ...

As usual, Big Pharma behind trans cosmetic procedures – big bucks to be made from mutilating children

May 10, 2023 -

Allergan Aesthetics, a drug company that provides products for these cosmetic procedures, is actually funding research into the promotion of these same procedures for transgenders.

"The company produces neurotoxins and other facial injections, as well as breast implants, and has financially supported doctors who administer those procedures for transgender patients or who are involved in research on the treatments' impact on transgender people," reports indicate.

One ...

Harry’s men’s razor company uses trans ‘man,’ AKA woman, to promote shave set

August 08, 2023 -

(Article by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg republished from MRCTV.org)

Over the weekend, the Twitter account called End Wokeness shared a video of a “man” named Luke Pearson. “He’s” a transgender male, so a female, and was promoting one of Harry’s “Face & Body Shave Sets.” The set included a Harry’s razor for a man's face and a razor from Harry's women's company, Flamingo, for customers to shave their bodies.

Harry’s Razors partnered with a “trans man” (female) to promote ...

Study: AI can predict people’s POLITICAL VIEWS by simply looking at their faces

June 28, 2023 -

Researchers from Denmark and Sweden tested out this theory by utilizing a computational neural networks, algorithms that mimic the structure and function of human brains. They then trained the Face API from Microsoft, which made use of such a network, to analyze thousands of human pictures. The results of their study were published in Scientific Reports last March.

Study first author Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen of Aarhus University and his colleagues also utilized Face ...

STUDY: COVID vaccines caused widespread damage to Norwegian children, including anaphylaxis, myocarditis, swollen lymph nodes, appendicitis

January 09, 2024 -

The “vaccines” licensed in Norway were the Comirnaty (BNT162b2, Pfizer-BioNTech) and Spikevax (mRNA-1273, Moderna). These jabs were administered to children ages 12-19 as early as April 2021. The jabs were also administered to “high risk” children prior to April, but these children were excluded from the study. Nearly 500,000 children were included in the study.Healthy Norwegian children suffer from Pfizer and Moderna’s failed COVID vaccine program

According to the study, ...